Retail

  Bloomberg Selfridges & Co. is pushing further into selling pre-worn clothing, offering rental services and repairing used items as the UK department-store chain seeks ways to reduce the fashion industry’s weighty environmental impact. Since 2020, Selfridges has increased sales of previously owned items by 240%, according to a report in which it sets out new goals. The retailer has ...

  Bloomberg John Lewis Partnership Plc is hiring more than 10,000 temporary workers across the UK to meet demand over the crucial Christmas period. That’s 3,000 more than the department store chain hired in its festive push last year and all employees will receive free food from October to January to help with the higher cost of living, the retailer ...

  Bloomberg 3M Co. plans to eliminate jobs as part of a broader cost-cutting drive in response to the slowing economy, according to internal communications. The move comes just days after 3M suffered a setback over a key legal strategy designed to mitigate mounting liabilities and as it faces an array of other challenges, ranging from inflationary woes to sluggish ...

  Bloomberg Glow Recipe, a skin-care brand popular for its fruit-based products, is exploring a sale that could value it at $400 million to $500 million. The company is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said the people, who asked to not be identified. It has $80 million in annual revenue. No final decision has been made and Glow Recipe ...

Bloomberg Woolworths Holdings Ltd. is preparing to battle the impact of soaring inflation in both its key markets, after increased sales and a growing cash pile allowed the South African retailer to raise the annual dividend higher than expected. While a jump in prices is a global risk, Woolworths said the company’s Australian department-store business “should be somewhat mitigated by ...

  Bloomberg Chewy Inc tumbled after the online seller of pet supplies cut its revenue outlook and said customer growth has slowed. Sales in the current fiscal year will total no more than $10 billion as customer pull back on discretionary goods such as toys and treats, Chewy said in a letter to shareholders. That’s down from a previous forecast ...

Bloomberg Bed Bath & Beyond Inc shares plunged in premarket trading on Wednesday after the home-goods retailer announced in a filing that it may offer, issue and sell shares of its common stock from time to time. Shares in the retail-trader favourite sink as much as 21% as of 6:42 am New York time, erasing an earlier gain of as ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s retail sales rose more than expected in July, reversing two months of declines as the city attempts to mount a recovery from Covid-19 curbs and other headwinds. Retail sales value rose 4.1% in July from a year ago, the Census and Statistics Department said on Wednesday. That compared to a median estimate of a 1.4% rise ...

Bloomberg Best Buy Co surpassed Wall Street’s profit estimate after warning a month ago that it was under pressure from waning consumer-electronics demand. Adjusted earnings fall to $1.54 a share in the fiscal second quarter, Best Buy said in a statement on Tuesday. That exceeded the $1.35 average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg, which had come down sharply since ...

Bloomberg Auchan Retail plans to keep its Russian operations going even though the division is likely to be unprofitable and the country’s invasion of Ukraine continues amid global condemnation. The French grocer is experiencing a “marked slowdown in activity” in Russia that began in the second quarter, Auchan Retail Chief Financial Officer Ludovic Delcloy told analysts and journalists during a ...